Since I started to dedicate myself to the study of science I do is around to see how there is mistrust of science, scientific, technology. It is basically one hand, the fear of what you do not know the other one would like painless solutions to problems such as disease, pollution, and so on. Too bad that no solution is without risk, it is only to minimize these risks than benefits that were obtained. Unfortunately, many people do not like this hard reality and prefer to believe those who promise miracle solutions rather than who says it like it is, or theories about alleged conspiracies often touted by celebrities or TV shows. Since I parent, I found that this phenomenon takes on a disturbing when it comes to choices we make for our children. Hence parents who care for their sons 'only with homeopathy' and are opposed to antibiotics (then you wonder why asylum bacterial infections are wasted), and stuffed them with sugar balls (paid but who knows what) to a minimum when coughing maybe just leave in peace and wait cough goes away on its own because 'so do not hurt' (actually, they do not own anything). If you try to explain that there is no scientific proof, and that the positive effects that anyone has observed are due to the placebo effect do you say they are points of view, and there's no way to explain that there is no point of view of science and homeopathy ... what you can scientifically prove it exists, everything else is chatter. However, the thing that horrified me most was discovered, and until then really did not think possible, that there are parents who do not vaccinate their children. I've always thought that with vaccinations came civilization, I was speechless when I discovered that there is a movement vaccinia, and that those who belong to it are not really even a few. To say these parents to be traveling to countries where vaccinations are not available to all, and read the statistics on adverse reactions to vaccines that are made today that are absolutely certain, and compare them with statistics regarding the risks diseases for which vaccination is recommended. In addition, I note that a vaccination campaign is more effective, many people undergo. In practice, vaccination is not a duty towards her child, but against the whole society.
I knew the story of a Wakefield, who had published years ago, studies on possible links between trivalent vaccine (measles, mumps and measles) and autism, then denied. But I did not know all the details of the story. I read this morning in this interesting article Query . In practice, in 1998 the British physician Andrew Wakefield published in the journal Lancet this study, which is now known to have been a fraud. Other scientists tried to replicate the results of the study published in Lancet : not only did not succeed, but there seemed to be just no link between vaccines and autism . The journal Lancet Wakefield retired the study and was investigated by British justice to healthcare fraud. In May 2010 he was expelled the order of British doctors. Surveys now emerged that the search for Wakefield had been funded by a lawyer who wanted to sue vaccine companies, in order to get compensation billionaire. In addition Wakefield had also patented a system for the production of the three separate vaccines, and that his advice not to use the trivalent vaccine was not entirely disinterested.
Finally, I copy and paste the last lines of the article:
"Wakefield was expelled from the doctors, but has become a guru of the movement anti-vaccination . Due to his hundreds of children suffered from complications related to measles, which would have been easily prevented with vaccination. But the propaganda of the anti-vaccination groups continua ed è arrivata anche in Italia, in trasmissioni cospirazioniste come Mistero. Chissà se tutti coloro che si scagliano contro il “complotto delle multinazionali farmaceutiche per coprire i legami tra vaccinazioni ed autismo” sanno davvero come questa storia ha avuto inizio." 
